Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 21:38.
Ooh, we hope, we hope, we hope. From Middle East Online via Alternet, May 16:
MILAN - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi may testify in the Milan trial of 26 CIA agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian imam, a judge decided Wednesday.
Judge Oscar Magi accepted defense lawyers' arguments that Prodi and Berlusconi should be called in the trial of the agents being judged in absentia.
Seven Italians, including the former head of military intelligence General Nicolo Pollari, are also on trial in the case.
Secret service heads and ministers of defense under Prodi, who was premier between 2006 and 2008, and in Berlusconi's previous government from 2001-2006 may testify, the judge ruled.
The defendants are on trial in the northern city for the February 2003 kidnapping of Osama Mustafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
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Berlusconi to testify in CIA trial?
Ooh, we hope, we hope, we hope. From Middle East Online via Alternet, May 16:
See our last posts on the detainment/torture scandal and the Abu Omar case.